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President Donald Trump said Thursday he will meet again with Russia's Vladimir Putin in an effort to end the war in Ukraine. A date has not been set, but Trump wrote on social media that the meeting would take place in Budapest, Hungary. "I believe great progress was made with today's telephone conversation," Trump wrote after talking to Putin. They previously met in Alaska in August, which did not produce a diplomatic breakthrough. Before Trump and Putin meet, US officials led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio will sit down with Russian representatives next week. It's unclear where that meeting will take place. The call came ahead of Trump's meeting on Friday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been pressing Trump to sell Kyiv Tomahawk missiles that would allow Ukrainian forces to strike deeper into Russian territory. Zelensky has argued that such strikes would help compel Putin to take Trump's calls for direct negot...

Late on Wednesday night, the BJP announced its third list of 18 candidates, taking the total count of declared candidates to 101, also the number of seats allotted to the party in the final seat-sharing distribution within the NDA for Bihar polls. Earlier today, the party had released its second list of 12 names. On Tuesday, the party had released a list of 71 names, fielding Bihar Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha from Tarapur and Lakhisarai seats, respectively, and six state ministers.  The BJP has dropped 16 sitting MLAs from its list of 101 candidates. According to the BJP list, folk singer Maithili Thakur will contest from Alinagar in Darbhanga district. Bihar BJP chief Dilip Jaiswal has said that the NDA is going into the elections with "rock-solid unity." Principal rival Tejashwi Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal is yet to announce its candidates. The Congress, RJD's alliance partner, has not released a formal list, although it has n...

Will the ODI series against Australia be Virat Kohli 's last? The talismanic batter has already quit the Test and T20I format, and speculations are rife about his potential retirement from the 50-over format after the ODI series against Australia. With India preparing to assemble the right team for the ODI World Cup 2027, Kohli's lack of match practice in the lead-up to the marquee event has been cited as a potential problem when it comes to his selection in the format. In these unpredictable times, Virat recalled what former captain MS Dhoni and head coach Gary Kirsten told him ahead of the ODI World Cup 2011. In a video shared by RCB on social media, Kohli revealed that he was backed by Dhoni and Kirsten, not because he was the most prolific or technically sound player, but for what he brought on the field. "Gary and MS made it very clear to me that we are backing you to play at number three. And this is what you can do for the team. What you represent on the field, ...

"Jai Shri Ram, Jai Shri Ram" -- the chant rang out loud in the heart of Gwalior this evening, as a heated confrontation unfolded between a police officer and a lawyer amid prohibitory orders and tightened security across the city. What started as a dispute over enforcing prohibitory orders, quickly turned into a dramatic face-off between senior police officer Hina Khan and advocate Anil Mishra. Both sides chanted of "Jai Shri Ram" before a stunned crowd. The atmosphere in Gwalior has been tense over the installation of a statue of BR Ambedkar at the Madhya Pradesh High Court premises. Though the Dalits have called off their protest march planned for October 15, a security blanket has been firmly spread over the city in view of earlier instances of caste conflict. According to eyewitnesses, advocate Mishra, former president of the lawyers' association, arrived with his supporters to recite Ramayan's Sundar Kand near Phoolbagh on Monday evening.  Hina Khan ...

Pakistan is understood to have lost over 100 military personnel along the Line of Control during Operation Sindoor, Indian Army's Director General Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai said on Tuesday, citing list of awards conferred posthumously by that country's military. The top military official also said that Pakistan lost at least 12 aircraft during the conflict in May while echoing the details shared by Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh a few days ago. Lt Gen Ghai also said that the Indian Navy was fully ready to play its part and if Pakistan had decided to continue with the hostilities any further, it could have been "catastrophic for it, not only from the sea but from other dimensions as well". Sharing certain details of the May 7-10 hostilities, Lt Gen Ghai said Pakistan had resorted to cross-border firing immediately after India pounded nine terror targets on May 7. "Pakistanis possibly unwittingly let out their awards list last month ...

The friend of the medical student who was raped near a private medical college in West Bengal's Durgapur has been arrested by the police, taking the total arrests in the case to six. NDTV had reported earlier that the woman, a second-year MBBS student who had gone to West Bengal from Odisha to study, and her friend had stepped out of the IQ City Medical College in Durgapur's Shivapur area on October 10 and were accosted by a few people. She was allegedly taken to a forested area and raped. In his police complaint, the survivor's father had named the friend and said he had "misled her and took her to a vacant place under false pretexts". On Tuesday, before the friend was taken into custody, Asansol-Durgapur Commissioner of Police Sunil Kumar Choudhary had said five people had been arrested, whose presence had been established at the place where the crime was carried out, and the mobile phone snatched from the survivor had been recovered. The police, Choudhary s...